Tan Zhenlin

Tan Zhenlin (Chinese谭震林, Pinyin Tan Zhenlin ) (* 1902, † 1983) was a political commissar of the Chinese People's Liberation Army during the Chinese Civil War, and later a politician of the Communist Party of China.

Tan Zhenlin was born in You ( Zhuzhou ) (攸县), Hunan. He joined the Communist Party in 1926 and took part in the Chinese civil war from the late 1920s in part. In 1949 he was appointed first deputy political commissar of the Third Army of the People's Liberation Army.

Tan Zhenlin was a member of the 8th ( 1956-1969 ), 10th ( 1973-1977 ) and 11th ( 1977-1982 ) Central Committee of the Communist Party. He served as Deputy Chairman of the 4th and 5th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress ( 1975-1978, 1978-1983). During the time of the Great Leap Forward, he was much involved to enforce the ambitious production targets. In the spring of 1958, he threatened, for example, Zhou Yhiaozhou, leader of the Hunan Province, classify him due to the low budget figures as Rechtsabweicher, that the expected crop yields should not adjust upward.